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In reply to the discussion: 7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless - Cracked.com [View all]A HERETIC I AM
(24,393 posts)"If you have better solutions: I'm all ears. "
Yup...sure do.
Don't let people fall through the cracks in the first place.
Like any normal, progressive and particularly CHRISTIAN (as much as so many Americans claim we are) society would do.
I don't mean to literally throw a book on your desk and ask you to read it, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Let's start here. Click on the 2013 "Proxy Statement" report and look at page 36, "Executive Compensation".
Let's just start there, for fucks sake. Of all the revenue General Dynamics generates on an annual basis, roughly 85 to 90% of it is as a direct result of US government contracts, ie. tax dollars. They make precisely ONE product that does not take a DOD purchase order to acquire. Gulfstream Jets. The fact that they have executives making in excess of $15 million a year ON THE TAXPAYERS DIME while we have the social problems we struggle with in this country is a national disgrace.
People on the right try to make hay about how much a teacher or a firefighter or a sewer worker makes, but you never hear them complain about how much WE TAXPAYERS paid Jay L. Johnson in 2012.
General Dynamics is merely the FIFTH largest defense contractor in this country.
Want to fix the homeless problem? Want to fix the vast majority of the rest of the problems in this country? Turn down the flow of dollars to the Pentagon.
But that isn't easy to do, because it isn't a flow like a garden hose, or even a fire hose or even a 36" water main.
Money flows across the Potomac toward the Pentagon like water flows out of the penstocks of a major dam;
It has become almost unstoppable.